Conservation News ~ 9 July 2021

• New law urges Louisiana industry to report pollution, keeps records secret
• Kerala researchers discover two new wasp species, name them after Attenborough
• State buy-back of gill nets helps endangered species in Monterey Bay sanctuary
• Striking New Species of Wasp Discovered in Ecuador
• "Parts of US Brace For Tropical Storm Elsa's Impact"
• "Whistleblowers Claim EPA Altered Risk Reviews For Toxics"
• "Under Presssure, Company Cancels Tennessee Pipeline"
• "Court Strikes Trump EPA Rule For Full-Year 15% Ethanol Sales"
• "Canada Battles More Than 180 Wildfires With Hundreds Dead In Heat Wave"
• EPA Pulls Rule Allowing Use Of Radioactive Material In Road Construction
• Corporate Studies Asserting Herbicide Safety Show Many Flaws: New Study
• "Activists Call For Ocean City Boycott Over Trash Burning"
• "Horrifying Massive Oil Pipeline Blaze Sets Gulf Of Mexico On Fire"
• "‘A Scourge Of The Earth’: Grasshopper Swarms Overwhelm US West"
• A New Species of Thismia Calls Attention for Conservation of Fairy Lanterns
• Naming of new ant species from Ecuador breaks with binary gender conventions
• In the Brazilian Amazon, a road project drives the threat of deforestation
• "Honduran Court Finds Construction Exec Guilty In Activist's Murder"
• "Oregon Gov. Says Too Many Lives Lost During Record-Breaking Heat Wave"
• New Day for Long-Suffering Neighbors after Huge Phila. Refinery Fire
• Oil Firm's Plan To Abandon 1,700 Gulf Wells Risks 'Environmental Disaster'
• "Maine’s Blueberry Crop Faces Climate Change Peril"
• "New Study Says These Louisiana Swim Spots Are Laden With Bacteria"
• ‘Abnormally High’ Turtle Deaths After Acid-Laden Ship Sinks Off Sri Lanka
• "Study Says Hunting, Poaching Reduce Wisconsin Wolf Numbers"
• "Fox’s New Channel Changes the Climate for Weather TV"
• "Inside The Pacheedaht Nation’s Stand On Fairy Creek Logging Blockades"
• Up To Third Of Wisconsin's Wolves Killed After Removal From Endangered Species List
• Meet the 'Zombie Frog,' a new species found in the Amazon
• Wildfires turn up the heat on farmers growing Indonesia’s ‘hottest’ pepper
• In DRC, community ownership of forests helps guard the Grauer’s gorilla
• Playing the long game: ExxonMobil gambles on algae biofuel
• Biden administration proposes removing Colorado River fish's endangered status
• Canadian Governments Spent $23 Billion Supporting 3 Pipelines Since 2018
• "Tribes Say Voting Access Hurt By Us Supreme Court Ruling"
• Shrinking For Years, Utah’s Great Salt Lake Now Faces A Drought
• "‘Megadrought’ Along Border Strains US-Mexico Water Relations"
• "White House Announces New Rules For Labeling Meat 'Product of USA'"
• Sporadic Environmental Voters Could Turn Red States Blue
• Corpus Christi Black Neighbors Feel Like They Are in a ‘Sacrifice Zone’
• "Black And Latinx Hairdressers Exposed To High Levels Of Phthalates"
• "Fox’s New Channel Changes the Climate for Weather TV"
• "How Bad Are U.S. Wildfires? Even Hawaii Is Battling a Surge."
• Critically endangered sturgeons threatened by proposed dams in Caucasus
• Federal Agency Proposes Downlisting Hawaiian Stilt From Endangered to Threatened
• For Norway salmon farms giving up deforestation-linked soy, Cargill proves a roadblock
• Billions in fishing subsidies finance social, ecological harm, report finds
• Tiger habitat threatened by Malaysian royals’ mining plans
• Activists take Indonesia’s mining law to court, but don’t expect much
• Former dam executive found guilty in the killing of Berta Cáceres
• Climate Change Drove Western Heat Wave’s Extreme Records: Analysis
• "Tribe Becomes Key Water Player With Drought Aid To Arizona"
• Billions In Fishing Subsidies Finance Social, Ecological Harm: Report
• "Human Activity Influencing Global Rainfall, Study Finds"
• "No, A Tanker Full Of Fossil Fuels Isn’t “Carbon Neutral.”"
• Haaland Creates Task Force On Interior Law Enforcement After Incidents
• "EV Deal Shows 'Lithium Valley' Could Be For Real"
• Madagascar Headed Toward Climate Change-Linked Famine It Did Not Create
• Chicago’s Climate Future: Battle Between A Great City And A Great Lake
• "A Young Naturalist Inspires With Joy, Not Doom"
• Downlisting proposed for endangered razorback sucker
• UNM researchers discover new species of moth
• New plant species discovered from Antarctica named after India
• "Tropical Storm Elsa Brings Flooding Threat to New York Area"
• "Maine Bans Offshore Wind From State Waters"
• "Volkswagen and BMW Fined $1 Billion For Running Emissions Cartel"
• "Multiple Large Fires In Western Idaho And Southeast Washington"
• "Oyster Rebound Prompts Maryland To Ease Some Harvest Limits"
• "Mexico Water Supply Buckles On Worsening Drought, Putting Crops At Risk"
• "Once a Rich Desert River, the Gila Struggles to Keep Flowing"
• As Arctic Melt Sets Early July Record, Hard Times Ahead For Ice: Studies
• Colorado Bans Single-Use Plastic Bags And Polystyrene, Creates Bag Fees
• "Climate Change Is Making It Harder for Campers to Beat the Heat"
• China Says Giant Pandas Are No Longer an Endangered Species
• Colombia deforestation increased 8% last year, environment minister says
• Scientists uncover a new diatom species in the Apostle Islands
• ‘Technical problems’ holding up enforcement of rulings in Indonesian fire and haze cases, official says
• As Arctic melt sets early July record, hard times lie ahead for ice: Studies
• Seafloor microbes hoover up methane, keeping global warming in check
• The Brooklyn Bridge needs a makeover. Is rainforest lumber still in style?
• Overcoming community-conservation conflict: Q&A with Dominique Bikaba
• The climate crisis will create two classes: those who can flee, and those who cannot
• America used fewer fossil fuels in 2020 than it has in three decades
• Since the early 2000s, the Moore Foundation has invested more than half a billion dollars into the Amazon
• As protestors face felonies, Minneapolis City Council joins opposition to Line 3
• More than a billion seashore animals may have been cooked to death in BC heat wave
• Almost extinct Saiga antelopes re-emerge in Kazakhstan following conservation efforts
• A conservation area receives highest level of legal protection in Ecuador
• Beavers set to be release in London as part of urban rewilding
• Argentina becomes the first country in the world to ban salmon farming in its waters
• Guadalupe fur seals continue to recover as new colony discovered